Privacy is the ability for an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively.
I've been cashless for about a decade now. I have no problem with donating money, giving or recieving monay as a gift. I never give the homeless money, but I often buy them food. Why couldn't you buy or sell something to people? You can easily transfer someone a small sum of money using their phone number. Same with garage sales. When was the last time You saw a Piggy Bank?
For people who think that Crypto will solve these issues, it won't. In a mass-adoption scenario, a few coins will be accepted as currency while the rest remain mostly useless for commerce. Those orgs behind those coins and their exchange platforms will then become just like the banks of old. Any attempt at democratizing Crypto is illusory, it's a fantasy.
- Banks have full control of every single cent you own.
• Every transaction vou make is recorded.
That sounds like a fair deal to me!?
"No cash donations to hungry homeless you pass"
i.e. Drug addicts and mental patients that you keep giving money to, so they tell all their friends and you start stocking up on vagrants in the area.
Stop fucking doing this. Volunteer at a soup kitchen, give homeless food, etc -- stop giving them cash to spend on drugs and alcohol. This just enables their own self-destructive habits and doesn't help them.
They’re having a shit life. If a dollar or 2 here and there helps them have a less shitty imma do what I want with my money.
Homeless in Oslo take card
Correct.
Cash "kindness" certainly could result an a OD death.
Stop the cash!
don't worry, the politicians will never block themselves from receiving suitcases full of money
Can't wait for crypto to be fully adopted
So that everyone can see everything, instead of just the banks.
You're right, most cryptos as they exist are open ledgers for anyone to examine. However there are digital currencies where the ledger is not open, and our private by default, such as monero. Truly fungible digital cash.
Monero my friend, monero
I live in New York City. The current way to pay for buses and subways is with a Metrocard. You can buy them at some stores and check cashing places, or at most subway stations. You can pay with cash or a card. Now, at great cost, they are introducing a 'better' system where you pay for your rides with a credit card or smart device. They are planning on getting completely rid of the Metrocards. Soon, they will be able to trace anyone's movements.
Bruh what you can buy omny cards for cash in stores.
I used my phone to tap and pay back in December '21. Not a new thing.
You can buy preloaded credit cards with cash from convenience stores. It's as trackable as your MetroCard.
trace anyone's movements
There's literally a GPS enabled mind control device in almost everyone's pocket.
Take off the tinfoil hat, NYC is not planning to get rid of metrocards. The credit card payment ability is just a convenience feature to get more people riding transit.
I mean, my tinfoil hat is on for the same reason - I haven't been arsed using Transport for London's Oyster card because there's a cost cap placed on all travel paid for by one single card. I suppose my bank has my details already so it'd better that than having another party with my data... and another card to lose, more likely.
We aren't at the point as a society to be fully cashless. Maybe someday it could work but I think that day is very far away. Look how fucked up even the most basic parts of society are. We can't even get societies and cultures to live together in peace or something that resembles balance and harmony. Lack of privacy and security is holding back the star trek future. Trying to make these good intentioned theoretical changes in society before society is humanly ready will fuck us all.
I think humanity is a lot further behind than most think. ... And it almost feels like social life and community is getting more and more primitive, wild, and fragmented as time goes on. These different future paths are marketed from and for them, the corporations and greedy, not us.
They're protesting an awful lot for something that is so far away
There are many places in larger cities that will or accept cash. Many do it the name of safer practices (can’t be robbed if you ever have cash), but it’s still leading to the same outcome.